Tag Archives: Privacy

Bard Vegar Solhjell and Snorre Valen, two lawmakers in Norway, have nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The two, who are members of the Socialist Left Party, have released a joint statement in which they say that ...

Rovio, the Finnish company behind the massively successful Angry Birds franchise, has denied any collaboration between themselves and the NSA.
In yet another bit of information released by Edward Snowden, he claims that the NSA u...

David Drummond has publicly stated that President Obama is not doing enough to change the way the NSA does things.
Drummond, who is Google’s chief legal officer, believes that the government needs to alter the way they coll...

Apparently Apple’s CEO would like to disclose just what data Apple has shared with the American government, but can’t due to the gag order.
Apple and other companies have received a lot of criticism over sharing data ...

In response to the fact that the National Security Agency has been monitoring its users, Microsoft has decided to offer those outside the US the option to store their data off of American soil.
Microsoft seems to be the first maj...

Credit card information, as well as other personal details, has been stolen from 20 million South Koreans.
20 million is roughly 40% of South Korea’s population, and the data was stolen by one person, a man who was on contr...

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board have released a report in which they call the NSA phone data collection illegal and also ineffectual .
The report, which is 238-pages, says that there have been “minimal”...

Edward Snowden has called for limitations to be put on US spying, in an online chat held on Thursday.
During the chat he defended himself and said that any allegations concerning the theft of colleague passwords or tricking co-wo...

To Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, the key to cracking censorship lies in stronger encryption.
Schmidt believes that through strengthening their encryption, companies will be able to protect people’s privacy from gov...

Microsoft has asked that there be new rules put in place on an international level to safeguard people’s individual privacy and rights.
Brad Smith, who is Microsoft’s vice president of legal and corporate affairs, as ...

China has decided to crack down on online anonymity by requiring anyone who posts a video in China to include their real name.
China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) sent out ...

The European Union believes that harsher fines are necessary for companies that violate data privacy. The charge by the EU is being made Viviane Reding, its justice commissioner, and also vice-president of the European Commsion, ...

Because of an influx of adware, Google has gotten rid of two Chrome extensions.
The extensions in question are Add to Feedly and Tweet This Page. At first they were pretty popular and actually useful, but then they started to bom...

The next step for Amazon seems to be to ship you the products you want before you even buy them.
Recently Amazon acquired a patent known as “anticipatory shipping” and they believe that it will help them cut down on d...